January 23, 2003
Africa: Washington is Neglecting African Needs, Say Campaign Groups
If there is to be global security, Africa must be moved from the margins to the center of U.S. foreign policy; that's the view of three campaign organisations who Thursday called… Read more »
December 03, 2002
Burkina Faso: HIV/Aids' Campaigner Brings New Hope To Sufferers
Mamadou Sawadogo, a nurse from Burkina Faso, is a determined and cheerful optimist. He is also HIV-positive. Sawadogo, 34, became infected with the virus after a needle-stick… Read more »
December 01, 2002
Africa: HIV/Aids Specialist Says Reducing the Spread of Infection is Achievable
As World Aids Day again called attention to the continuing spread of HIV/Aids in Africa and elsewhere, AllAfrica talked to Dr. Helene Gayle, director of the U.S. Centers for… Read more »
November 20, 2002
Africa: 'New-Variant' Famine: How Aids Has Changed the Hunger Equation
Just as HIV destroys the body's immune system, the epidemic of HIV and Aids has disabled the body politic. As a result of HIV, the worst-hit African countries have undergone a… Read more »
October 08, 2002
Africa: Bono Recognized for Work Against Poverty, Aids
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States, which presents the annual Grammy Awards for music, will present its 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year… Read more »
September 17, 2002
Lesotho: Recycling Tin Cans into Houses
Pick up one bit of trash - in this case, an empty soda can - and ask yourself what it might be good for? Read more »
September 06, 2002
Mozambique: Healing People -- and a Country
In some parts of Africa, traditional healers are the first available person a sick person turns to when facing a health emergency. These healers are often a central component of… Read more »
September 04, 2002
Botswana: Mogae in the Spotlight at AAI Dinner and Congressional Black Caucus
"Perhaps overshadowed" by South Africa, Botswana has been "quietly plugging" away at development and meeting some success, despite being battered by HIV/Aids, says Africa-America… Read more »
July 12, 2002
Africa: Washington's 'Africa Community' Salutes Veteran Campaigner Lucas
"Unless we do something now there will not be any Africa!" With forceful words on the need for organization and to campaign against HIV/Aids, former Africare head C. Payne Lucas… Read more »
July 11, 2002
Senegal: Traditional Medicine Treatment for Aids Passes Clinical Tests
In what are called "significant clinical and laboratory results," by The Association for the Promotion of Traditional Medicine (Prometra), a three year study of 62 Aids infected… Read more »
July 10, 2002
Zambia: 'Protect Young Girls from Forced Sex With HIV-Positive Men'
As the international Aids conference continues in Barcelona, Janet Fleischman of Human Rights Watch contributes this personal view on the special and urgent need to protect young… Read more »
July 09, 2002
Africa: Lack of Cash Poses Biggest Problem in Fight Against Aids
On Barcelona's streets outside the Aids conference, treatment advocates, doctors and people with HIV/AIDS plan to stage "massive" protests. South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign… Read more »
July 02, 2002
Africa: Defying Predictions, HIV in Africa Has Not Yet Peaked
"The scale of the Aids crisis now outstrips even the worst-case scenarios of a decade ago," according to a new UNAIDS Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, and Africa continues… Read more »
June 18, 2002
South Africa: HIV-Aids Link Is Inherent In South Africa's Policies, Says Health Director
The South African government has relented, and some say completely reversed itself, with an unexpected April announcement that it would make anti-retroviral drugs available for… Read more »
May 16, 2002
Africa: Rock Star Bono, US Treasury Secretary Plan Africa Tour
They are an unlikely duo, to say the least: Irish rock star Bono, of U2, and Bush Administration Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill. But the two men are pairing up and between May… Read more »
May 08, 2002
Uganda: Museveni in US to Seek Investment, Attack Protectionism
Although Congo's ongoing conflict was an important part of discussions Uganda president Yoweri Museveni held with Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor… Read more »
February 20, 2002
South Africa: New Aids Treatment Row Rekindles Doubts on Government Stance
"Minister, you blundered", "An embarrassment", "Aids Rocks ANC", "ANC in turmoil over HIV-Aids", "Gauteng Aids plan sparks ANC rift", "Uneasy peace over HIV/Aids policy shattered",… Read more »
February 09, 2002
South Africa: Mbeki Speech Highlights Poverty, Disappoints on Aids, Zimbabwe
"VukUzenzele! Arise and Act! The Peoples Campaign!" Read more »
January 31, 2002
Botswana: Public-Private Partnership Leads Fight Against HIV/Aids
"The future of humanity is seriously threatened" by the Aids pandemic, Botswana Health Minister Joy Phumaphi told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies… Read more »
December 14, 2001
Africa: Elimination Of River Blindness 'Possible Within Ten Years'
The Global Partnership to Eliminate River blindness announced Friday that US$39m has been pledged by donors to wipe out Onchocerciasis, more commonly known as River Blindness, in… Read more »
December 12, 2001
Burkina Faso: President Says All with HIV/Aids Should Have Drugs
President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso opened the 12th International Conference on AIDS and STDS (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) in Africa (ICASA) on Sunday 9 December in the… Read more »
Gabon: Government Seeks Help to Fight Ebola Outbreak
The Gabonese government has launched an appeal for international help to cope with an outbreak of Ebola fever about 700 kilometres north of the capital, Libreville. Read more »
December 11, 2001
Africa: Congressional Vote Approves $1.3bn to Fight Aids Worldwide
By a voice vote, Tuesday, the House approved a US$1.3 billion one year authorization bill, the Global Access to HIV/Aids Prevention, Awareness, Education and Treatment Act (HR… Read more »
December 10, 2001
Gabon: Opposition Wants Poll Annulled
Results of the first round of Gabon's legislative elections, held Sunday, have still not been officially announced yet. But the opposition, though disunited even as it embarked on… Read more »
November 30, 2001
Africa: Africa's AIDS Fight: Are We Winning or Losing?
It seems the need is almost bottomless. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a "Global Aids Fund" - a war chest of US$7-10bn to be replenished at that level… Read more »
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